They now face an uphill task when the second leg is staged in London next Thursday and Blues goalkeeper Cech said: ‘We ended up with the worst result.

‘We didn’t get a goal and it is not the result you want in the first leg.

‘We had the better chances, I hardly made a save and they had a penalty which they scored from. The most disappointing thing is that we did not score. We have made it hard for the return leg but 1-0 is not a scoreline we cannot overturn.’